Drake Bell is talking out about Nickelodeon’s “fairly empty” response in his first interview because the launch of the “Quiet on Set” documentary collection.
The previous “Drake & Josh” star slammed the community’s response after he alleged within the docuseries that Brian Peck, a former dialogue coach on “All That” and “The Amanda Present,” sexually abused him when he was a baby actor on the community.
Peck was arrested on a number of fees linked to sexual abuse involving an unnamed minor in 2003. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to register as a intercourse offender after he pleaded no contest to 2 fees of kid sexual abuse the next yr.
Nickelodeon, in a press release shared with a number of media retailers in regard to Bell’s allegation towards Peck, stated, “Now that Drake Bell has disclosed his id because the plaintiff within the 2004 case, we’re dismayed and saddened to study of the trauma he has endured, and we commend and assist the power required to come back ahead.”
“Quiet on Set” episodes additionally conclude with a Nickelodeon assertion, the place the community stated it “investigates all formal complaints as a part of our dedication to fostering a protected {and professional} office,” noting “quite a few safeguards” it has adopted to make sure it lives as much as its “excessive requirements” and viewers expectations.
“There’s a really well-tailored response saying, ‘Studying about his trauma,’ as a result of they couldn’t say that they didn’t learn about this or know what had occurred, or something,” Bell stated of Nickelodeon’s assertion in an interview on the “Sarah Fraser Present” podcast launched on Friday.
“So I feel that was a extremely well-tailored response by most likely some massive lawyer in Hollywood. I discover it fairly empty, their responses, as a result of, I imply, they nonetheless present our exhibits, they nonetheless put our exhibits on,” he continued. “And I’ve to pay for my very own remedy, I’ve to determine what — I imply, if there was something, if there was any fact behind them really caring, there could be one thing greater than quotes on a web page by clearly a authorized consultant telling them precisely easy methods to tailor a response.”
Bell advised Fraser that his father, Joe Bell, who seems in “Quiet on Set,” would strategy Nickelodeon executives on the time and flag grownup conduct towards minors that he discovered “uncomfortable.”
“And they’d shoo him away. If that’s their concept of an investigation, it’s very defective, and I don’t assume that they might uncover something with an investigation like, ‘Oh, you don’t perceive, he’s simply that manner. That’s simply how he’s,’” the actor stated.
“I imply, that’s not an investigation, in order that’s a bold-faced lie.”
You possibly can watch extra of Bell’s interview with Fraser beneath.
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